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Halmahera

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Hal·ma·he·ra  (hlm-hr, hälmä-hrä)
An island of eastern Indonesia between New Guinea and Sulawesi. It is the largest of the Moluccas. Japanese installations on the island were a frequent target for Allied bombing raids in 1944.
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It was in the fall of 2002 when Yulce, living with her family in a bamboo hut on the remote island of Halmahera, poured kerosene into a lit oil lamp, which blew up.
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A third pattern appears on one western island, Halmahera, and on several of Oceania's easternmost islands, possibly marking a separate Lapita dispersal.
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The territorial competition between Christians and Muslims in Halmahera stretched back to the initial settlements and conversions by the Dutch in North Halmahera.
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